Vocabulary 2.29.16 DUE MARCH 4, 2016

Containment the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.

Iron Curtain an impenetrable barrier to communication orinformation, especially as imposed by rigidcensorship and secrecy.

Diplomacy the art of dealing with people in a sensitive and effective way.

detente the general easing of the geo-political tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States which began in 1969, as a foreign policy of U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford called détente; a "thawing out" or "un-freezing" 

proliferation rapid increase in numbers.

Timeline Gilded Age – 1870 - 1900 Progressive Era – 1890 - 1920 Imperialism – 1898 -1914 WWI – 1914 - 1919 Roaring Twenties – 1920 - 1929 Great Depression – 1929 - 1940 WWII – 1939 - 1945 Cold War – 1945 - 1991